We're Interested in You.

"Master, didn't you say we'd have to wait ages for a Gate-Establishment Token? Why did we get one right away?"

"Shut up, rich girl!"

"Oh!" Su Wan'er immediately closed her mouth.

Li Shouyi, meanwhile, felt he had been far too naive.

Sure enough, no matter which world you were in, cash in hand meant a shortcut through the system.

He glanced back at the Dao Alliance compound and gritted his teeth.

Once I'm strong enough, I'll rob this damned Dao Alliance clean.

While Li Shouyi was viciously plotting his future revenge on the Dao Alliance, something happened.

A group of young men in embroidered silk robes blocked his path.

"Everyone, I am..."

Their leader stepped forward, about to introduce himself.

But Li Shouyi thrust out his palm, blocking him, and said gravely, "Enough. Skip the introduction."

"One look tells me you've either got an arrogant father or a powerful family."

"Tell me, which of my disciples has caught your eye?"

"Uh..."

Li Fengnian was left completely stunned by this maneuver.

"Young man, you're not exactly a big fellow. Who would've thought you'd be so greedy?"

"You actually want all three?"

When Li Fengnian said nothing, Li Shouyi assumed he wanted all three and recoiled a little in surprise.

But after looking him up and down, he continued with a disdainful look, "Young man, it's not that I'm looking down on you."

"Your physique clearly isn't up to the task!"

"Uh..."

"But since you're so sincere, if the price is right, I might just steel my heart and hand all three disciples over to you."

"I..."

"You still need to think about it? Now that's where you're wrong."

"Look at my three disciples. Each has her own charms, big where they should be big, perky where they should be perky."

"Young man, girls of their caliber will be gone if you're too slow!"

Lin Shuishui and Su Wan'er naturally knew their master was teasing the man opposite him, but Pei Zhujiu didn't understand him yet.

Frightened, she stepped forward and clung to Su Wan'er's arm, asking nervously, "Second Senior Sister, Master isn't really planning to sell us, is he?"

"Sell us? You're overthinking it. Our master would sell himself before he'd ever sell us."

Su Wan'er had known ever since Li Shouyi told them to leave first during his last fight with Wu Dalang.

Their master truly cared about them.

"Then..."

Looking puzzled, Pei Zhujiu pointed at Li Shouyi, who was still pitching the three of them to Li Fengnian.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Master has another hobby: teasing idiots."

"Idiots?"

Pei Zhujiu only grew more confused.

Meanwhile, Li Fengnian, who kept getting cut off by Li Shouyi, couldn't take it anymore.

He roared at Li Shouyi, "Enough!"

"Will you fucking let me finish?"

"Uh, go ahead." Li Shouyi seemed startled by him.

"First of all, we brothers aren't interested in women."

"We're interested in you."

After saying that, Li Fengnian's rugged face actually took on a coy expression.

Holding both hands in dainty orchid-finger poses, he continued bashfully, "Might this esteemed Daoist be willing to explore the origins of humanity with us?"

Once he finished, the five or six young men behind him lowered their heads slightly, twin blushes blooming on their cheeks like girls catching sight of a handsome man.

"Blech..."

At that moment, Li Shouyi and all three of his disciples threw up.

"Metropolitan Guard! Get over here and arrest these perverts!"

His face livid, Li Shouyi shouted at a Metropolitan Guard patrol that happened to be passing.

He'd treated the fellow like an idiot, only for the fellow to treat him like a tool for exploring the origins of life.

Even an uncle could stomach this, but an aunt certainly couldn't.

The Metropolitan Guard was the Dao Alliance's special guard force, responsible for maintaining order in its cultivation cities.

"Li Fengnian! You lot again!"

"Arrest these lunatics! We finally get a fresh face in the Dao Alliance."

"And you've already started tormenting him after just a few minutes!"

"At this rate, our city's GPD will fall short of the target again this year."

"Will you be paying our year-end bonuses then?"

The Metropolitan Guard captain nearly went mad with rage at the sight of these bastards.

Li Fengnian, male, a native of Dao Alliance City No. 11.

He was unlike a certain big shot surnamed Ye who had a hundred ways to make it impossible for someone to get by in his town.

Young Master Li knew only one: "piling man upon man."

According to the captain's records, he had at least a hundred and eight victims.

"Hmph! What would a vulgar man like you understand?"

"Sisters, let's go!"

"Hmph..."

The "sisters" behind Li Fengnian also snorted at the Metropolitan Guard captain, then swayed their hips and elegantly followed Li Fengnian with catwalk strides.

"Blech, motherfucker... blech."

At that moment, the entire patrol threw up too.

Bent over retching, Li Shouyi had no idea that this had just saved him from disaster.

Just moments earlier, his mortal enemy Wu Dalang had passed a short distance ahead of him with an elderly man who had the bearing of an immortal sage.

"Grandpa, you have to help me this time."

On the streets of Dao Alliance City No. 11, Wu Dalang kept pleading with his grandfather.

"My dear grandson, you're saying a man my granddaughter-in-law once seduced actually advanced from the Golden Core realm to the Spirit Severing Realm in just a dozen-odd years?"

"That's right, Grandpa!"

"I suspect he must have some treasure on him. With his slightly above-average talent, there's no way he could improve so unbelievably fast otherwise."

"We'll steal his treasure, then castrate him and sell him to the Spring Red Pavilion."

"Heh, that's my grandson for you. You've thought of everything."

"All right. Grandpa understands."

"Have my granddaughter-in-law come to my room tonight. I'll discuss the details with her properly."

The two appeared upright and respectable, but their conversation sent chills down the spine and left plenty to the imagination.

They weren't the only two plotting against Li Shouyi.

There was also our Fourth Prince, Zhou Kangyong—Young Master Zhou.

At the Cloud Cliff Sect.

Today, Tang Que was about to face the most important trial of his life.

Namely, how he would shift all the blame onto Li Shouyi before the Great Zhou Royal Clan.

"Your Majesty, this really had nothing to do with us! Who could have imagined that damned Li Shouyi would disguise himself as a Golden Core cultivator when he was actually in the Spirit Severing Realm?"

"Look at this frail little body of mine, only at the peak of Golden Core. How could I possibly be his match?"

The scene was downright bizarre: the dignified sect master of the Cloud Cliff Sect.

He stood in his own sect's grand hall with a face full of grievance, while a stern-faced monarch in dragon robes occupied the seat of honor.

After Tang Que finished speaking, Zhou Tianlong frowned at him and said gravely, "I sent my son here to learn, not because my Zhou family lacked the means to teach him."

"It was because I believed your Cloud Cliff Sect's cultivation techniques for progressing from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core ranked among the very best in the Dao Alliance."

"But now my son has suffered a calamity here that nearly left him unable to perform as a man. Do you think a few words of explanation will make this go away?"

With that, Zhou Tianlong looked at Tang Que with a cold smile, an icy glint flashing through his eyes...